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...unlikable crew of misfits chases around rural California in quest of a greenback grail: $312,000 in cash embezzled from a talent agency years earlier. James Caan, Sally Kellerman, Peter Boyle and Louise Lasser barrel over the back roads towing an Airstream Land Yacht, pursued by two absurdly sinister motor homes painted deadly black and piloted by unseen, relentless drivers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Now This Message | 3/19/1973 | See Source »

...Moss, attorney for the Treadway Motor Inn, also on Mt. Auburn St., opposed granting the zoning changes, terming them "illegal." He said after the hearing "Calling the Holiday Inn property transitional is a sham." He noted that Cambridge is currently negotiating with another developer concerning the commercial development of land on the "residential [west] side" of the Holiday Inn site...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: City, Developer Unveil Building Plans, Seek Zoning Changes for Holiday Inn | 3/16/1973 | See Source »

Every afternoon a hundred Vietnamese pimps would drive through the post with heavily made-up whores perched on the backs of their motor bikes. They would drive back and forth, reminding me of cruising the beach in high school, until they were hailed by some G.I. We were unable to reconcile the existence of those prostitutes with the majority of Vietnamese women who wouldn't even deign to notice an American soldier, much less...

Author: By Bruns H. Grayson, | Title: Something Was Dreadfully Wrong | 3/9/1973 | See Source »

...doubts remained, the Environmental Protection Agency clearly showed last week that it means business. In the largest fine ever levied on behalf of an antipollution measure, EPA won a judgment in U.S. district court against Ford Motor Co. for $3,500,000, plus other counts settled out of court for an additional...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Serious Violations | 2/26/1973 | See Source »

...nation greeted the release with an honest and appropriate pleasure, but also with a few inevitable touches of somewhat exaggerated sentimentality. Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn was quick to offer each returnee a gold lifetime pass to any major-league game. The Ford Motor Co. wanted to give each of the prisoners a new car. There were sure to be other offers, and Pentagon officers sometimes found themselves squirming a bit at the spectacle. President Nixon struck the right note when he said, "This is a time that we should not grandstand it; we should not exploit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: P.O.W.S: A Celebration of Men Redeemed | 2/19/1973 | See Source »

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